simon of the playa, roberto dobbisano ( a play on Bob Dobbs, not RobbiDobbs, who is also a slave to Bob, as we all are, she just recognizes it in public) H.G.Crosby (one of my past lives) Liz Estrada, (my female, albeit Bull-Dyke Persona), ZeroandOne, SnowahZark, Adam Link, Fuck-Head, and Jerome Templaugh.

Eric wrote:A) Other than public nudity & walking around with open alcohol, if you have to ask "is _______________ legal at Burning Man", it's probably not.

B) Think of ePlaya as a house party. Do you walk into a room full of strangers & ask, repeatedly, if anyone's kinky & if you can have sex on the couch in front of everyone? Don't be surprised that people are reacting with a bit of... distaste.

You've been registered on ePlaya for 7ish hours, you've started two threads about sex & have made a total of 9 posts, only in those two threads. People are reacting just like they would if someone in real life came up and started asking non-stop sex questions, by treating you as either lacking a bit of social skills or as an internet troll. If you're serious about the event, do some research, spend some time looking around, ask some actual questions that don't involve your genitals. Just a thought.

Or to clarify Eric's post (if you don't mind Eric) think of it like this:

In everyday life in America, there are three tiers of laws: Federal, State, and local. In general (not always effectively) it works that Federal law controls some things, leaving specifics up to the state. The state controls some more things, leaving the specifics up to the locality.

Essentially, BM/BRC acts like a temporary city...or a locality in my progression above. So in general, it's been free to relax rules/laws that other LOCALITIES have chosen to exercise over their communities. They are NOT free to waive state and federal laws.

Public nudity, certain things judged as public nuisances, noise control, etc they've established their own rules which in general are vastly different than that of a conventional town of 60k people. All the rest of the shit applies....

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion - W. Blake (attribution corrected)

That's due to state & Federal law, not some sort of special "BRC" laws, and the fact that Burning Man has a "party" reputation - which probably gives BRC more "police" (law enforcement) per capita than any other city of equal size in the country. More law enforcement, more chance to get caught (especially when they are actively looking for drug busts)

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

Perhaps the law enforcement agencies actually credit themselves with preventing the BRC citizenry from devolving into a violent, immoral cesspool along the lines of the Escape from New York or Robocop.

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Zeke Chaparral wrote:Perhaps the law enforcement agencies actually credit themselves with preventing the BRC citizenry from devolving into a violent, immoral cesspool along the lines of the Escape from New York or Robocop.